App Review: Xslimmer

I just recently tested out a new app that I must say has really impressed me. It's called Xslimmer (www.xslimmer.com). It's a simple app for the Mac that is designed to slim down apps for use only on the target host machine.

Most apps, especially for Mac, come packaged to run on both the Intel and PPC processor platforms. This, on top of language support for nearly 50 different languages can add some real heft to applications, especially mainstream packages (i.e. MS Office, Keynote, Numbers, etc.)

The app is simple to use. Click on the "Genie" button at the top of the page and the app will whir away for some time, collecting all available applications on the Mac system. Not only will the app find Mac apps, it actually dug through my apps contained in a VMware image of XP as well. If found unused processor and language support in those apps contained in XP without direction.






You can see that overall, I have saved 4GB of space and increased the launch time of my apps considerably since moving Xslimmer in. Thin apps, no fat. My kinda party.

Take a look at Xslimmer (www.xslimmer.com) and let me know what you think.

all the best,
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